vat

Other forms of vat

plural

vats·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about vat

What does vat mean?

vat means "a tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vat?

vat has 1 syllable: vat. In IPA it is /ˈvæt/.

What is another word for vat?

Close synonyms include value-added tax, ad valorem tax, tub. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vat a common word?

vat is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.